This Week's Best Food Stories & News

Everything you might have missed this week

We get it, you're busy. We're swamped, too—busy combing the Internet to keep you in the loop amid this fast-moving world, that is. Head into the weekend with these articles, food-related deep dives and Tasting Table reads stored away as dinner party conversation fodder.

All About Food

• Southern California's food (and media) scene just took a major blow.

• The industry with the most sexual harassment claims of all? Surprise, surprise.

• Learn more about the female chef whose response to Ivanka Trump went viral.

• Yes, we'd seriously shell out the $2,600 for this bento box lunch.

• This candy bar war just hit its—ahem—peak.

• You can't keep a man from his Waffle House.

Around the Web

• The Silence Breakers are Time's Person of the Year.

• If only all our layovers could take place at an airport with two ice-skating rinks, 450 pine trees and a sprawling Christmas market.

• Can you top the person with 257,623 unread emails on her phone?

This Week on TT

• It's official: This fast-food restaurant is a better place to work than Google, Apple and Microsoft.

One-dollar Long Island iced teas are the fastest route to some poor decisions.

• The world's largest Starbucks isn't even in the United States.